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Registration Details

Date: 14 June 1808

Registrant: Barker, Abner

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Pittsburgh

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Lewis

Date of Birth: 25 January 1808

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Milly

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "Negro Women"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Barker, Abner

Occupation: Merchant

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," p. 70, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Additional Primary Sources: Commonwealth v. Barker (1824);